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To all the people saying they should've named it "Rogers Colliseum", "Rogers Forumn" etc they named it "Rogers Place" because EVERYONE will call it "Rogers" if they used "Rogers Colliseum" then everyone would just call it the Colliseum. No one is going to call the new arena "The Place".

They want to drill Rogers into your head every day multiple times for the rest of your life.

They have started work on the site. Looks like they are working on building a new parking lot for the casino, as the one that is there currently will obviously be torn out. The new lot will be to the north of the casino, right across the street from the Epcor building.

Well, that and demand, things like the price of land, and why anybody would build towers higher than that already constructed in Downtown Edmonton.

Why would that be?

From a cost and land pricing pov and even if you for some reason wanted to build a head office tower in Edmonton why would you build it very high?

As things stand I'm amazed whenever we get 30floors here.

You build high office/apartment towers to make money. Edmonton is one of the hottest real estate markets in NA right now so I'm not surprised at all. Look at Calgary and the amount of huge skyscrapers they have. I think we'll end having a few 40-50 floor towers and a bunch right around that 30 mark, especially with a revitalized downtown. Lets remember that companies don't have to use the whole building and can rent out/sell suites/floors to smaller companies/residents.

You build high office/apartment towers to make money. Edmonton is one of the hottest real estate markets in NA right now so I'm not surprised at all. Look at Calgary and the amount of huge skyscrapers they have. I think we'll end having a few 40-50 floor towers and a bunch right around that 30 mark, especially with a revitalized downtown. Lets remember that companies don't have to use the whole building and can rent out/sell suites/floors to smaller companies/residents.

Suburban Edmonton is one of the hottest real estate markets. Not necessarily downtown Edmonton (albeit much improvement in that sector)

No serious comparison can be made with Calgary which is regional head office territory for virtually any Oil related firm and who have the most head offices found west of Toronto.

Calgary is an entirely different game. EPCOR was the first office tower to go up in downtown Edmonton in decades.

Not many people live in Downtown Edmonton area either, and while that number is increasing there is going to already be a glut in that market with recent builds that have gone up or are not yet completed.

Next, and architects can speak to this a lot more than I can but building high in Edmonton Region is dependent on lot soil conditions and requires extensive cost building substrata to stabilize towers. With the higher you go incurring significant cost. These are not the best soil strata conditions for building high towers here.

Again why would anybody incur such cost when land prices are really not prohibitive?

Next, why would say an Oil firm even build a tower downtown. They can build headquarters anywhere and with much of this also taking place in the burbs. Anything even remotely do do with the Oil or supply industry is located, headquartered in the burbs for sake of cost efficacy, efficiency, and with Henday delivering on that.

My response was to that not being the ONLY thing that is restricting development of towers over 150m.

For instance in this market how many if any would have occurred anyways?

Over the next couple decades we'll see. The last few decades were pretty dead.

They were dead because downtown Edmonton has been an absolute hole for over a decade and there was a restriction on height. Won't be surprised if we see a few BIG skyscrapers go up on 104Ave now with the new arena development and Epcor tower there.

Isn't there already a rogers place somewhere in Canada. Would have been nice to see a unique name.

Another poster touched on this in different thread, but the name is quite deliberately made so that "Rogers" will always be mentioned when referring to the arena. No one is going to shorten it to "the place," like they would if the name had "coliseum" or "forum" in it. Rogers wants Rogers everywhere.

They were dead because downtown Edmonton has been an absolute hole for over a decade and there was a restriction on height. Won't be surprised if we see a few BIG skyscrapers go up on 104Ave now with the new arena development and Epcor tower there.

Seriously...Fort Mac has plans for a 45 floor skyscraper in the next couple of years, so I think Edmonton could handle a few.